Table 1.

Environmental-related JOB descriptions and required education at the zone level of the municipality, Tigray regional state (governmental career structure of the municipality, 2018).

Sector	Job Vacant	Job Description and Responsibility	Required Education	Position
Municipality	Case Team SWM	According to the office, plan prepare, follow up on the plan, support experts during implementation, and coach and advocate the organization, give professional training for experts, and the community, evaluate timely the activities, and take action to prepare financial and material to implement the activities.	BSc and above in Urban Environment, Urban Management, Environmental Health, Environmental Science, Management, economics in plant, and Urban infrastructure,	Case team manager
	Support and follow up SWM	Support and follow up SWM preparation, experience sharing related to sanitation, implementation of the standards, rules, and regulations and awareness creation on stockholders, providing technical assistance, capacity building on SWM and related issue	BSc and above in Environment and climate change, Urban Management, Environmental Science, Urban infrastructure, Health Science, Environmental Engineering, Sanitary Engineering, and Applied Chemistry	Environmentalist
	Follow up on landfill site	Provide training to the whole community and concerned bodies, on landfill management, compost preparation, and segregation of SW, follow up recycling activities, advantages and disadvantages of SWM, and evaluate suitable SWM material.	BSc and above in Sanitary Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, and Urban Environment and Climate Change	Environmental Engineering
	SW Treatment Follow-up and Use for Different Purposes	Follow up the common SW segregation, recycling activities in the landfill site, transporting SW and poison-less, introducing household composting activities, and providing training on flammable SWM and ways of SWM to the whole community.	Diploma and Above in Urban Management, Urban Environmental and Climate Change, Environmental Health, Environmental Science, Chemistry, and Biology with basic computer skills and team spirit.	Environmental Technician
	Follow up on Sanitation of streets and roads	Check household prepares two SW collector materials, provide training and capacity building with the community on how to reduce SW initially, follow up SW collection, and transport,	Diploma and above in WM, Environmental Science, Environmental Health, Water supply and Sanitation, Applied Biology, Chemistry, Urban Environment and climate change	Environmental Expert
	Developmental Infrastructure	screen projects with significant impacts (Schedule I & II), that required EIA, put practicable and cost-effective mitigation measures, follow up EIA documents, and enhance proponents to prepare proactive and practicable EIA documents, and capacity building for stockholders and proponents.	BSc and above in Environmental Science, Urban Environment and CC, Biology, Chemistry, Urban Infrastructure, Environmental Engineering, Geography, Management, Sanitary Engineering	EIA Expert/Environmentalist

Key: CC: Climate Change; SWM: Solid Waste Management; SW: Solid Waste; WM: Waste Management.

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